Vista - who's running 2 4870x2 in crossfire

is anybody running two 4870x2 in crossfire ?, i want to do this but before i do it i would like to hear from people who are running this setup, thanks

I know someone who is.

He has had no problems so far with doing this other than heat. Those things put out a ridiculous amount of heat, and the cards themselves are big too so they allow less space for heat distribution.

Just something to keep in mind. I wouldn't recommend gaming extensively with 2 4870x2's for too terribly long without giving your PC a cooldown. I'd be afraid they would burn out on me :\

thanks Xen00b, i have had a look around the forums and 2 4870x2 seem to be stable so i am going to give it a go, i had a bad time with NVidia 2x8800 ultra's in sli so i decided to give ati a go, this card is realy good so i will get it a mate lol. thanks for the quick reply

I have a friend who has 3 8800 Ultras in tri-SLI and the amount of heat they put out is just insane.

Results with vary with multi-GPU setups aswell, though heat being the biggest problem. Get some decent cooling in your case and you should be alright with it.

i dont run those cards but i hear 3 way CFX (1x 4870x2 & 1x 4870) scales & performs just as well as the full fat 4 way CFX.....

i'd save some cash & go with the 3 way setup ...... but that's me.






SK

hm....... should work ok....

the card came today, (tues) put it in, reinstalled the drivers and it runs great, after tweaking the system here and there i am a happy chappy (untill the next game comes out that i cant run lol), thanks to everybody who took the time to help.

I have 2 Sapphire 4870x2 in crossfire mode but I can't play games or run any benchmark, the PC just freezes or reset w/o warning. Windows runs ok but anything related to 3D will hang the PC.
I have Windows Server 2008 64bits, which is pretty similar to Vista 64 (all my drivers are the ones from Vista or native drivers for the server edition). I have a Gygabyte X84T-DQ6 with 8GB RAM.

stoneys-nutz

you said that in your case everything is working fine. What version of the ATI drivers and CCC suite did you install?

I tried with different versions of the driver and CCC but no luck. And after installing-reinstalling many time different drivers now I can't even run the CCC. Eveytime I tried to run it I get the error saying that the version of the display driver is not the correct, even though is the latest one, 9.6

any ideas? any help will be much appreciated.

thxs.

Here is the information you wanted.
When i installed my drivers i used driver sweeper to clean out all my old drivers. (in safe mode). Link below.
Also i used CCleaner to clean my registry. (still in safe mode). Link below.
I put the link in for ATI drivers too.
I hope this helps, do you get an error message when things go wrong, if so put it in a new post and see if anyone can help.




Drivers & Tools | GAME.AMD.COM


Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com


CCleaner - Download


Good luck and let us know how it went.

Hi stoneys-nutz,

I just remove one of the cards. So basically what I have now is 1 4870x2. I remove all drivers and I installed the latest ones from ATI (as I did the first time I installed both cards). Now CCC loads ok. The image you just posted looks the same as what CCC tells me now.
I will try 3dMark and some game. One more thing, I'm not running Vista x64 but Windows Server 2008 x64. I'm wondering what would happen if I try Vista with both cards on the system? perhaps it works.

you are running Vista x64, aren't you?

Still, these problems shouldn't arise if ATI had a professional group of Software Engineers so build drivers. NEVER AGAIN ATI for me.

thx.